U+ADF8 "그" Hangul Syllable Geu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+ADF8 "그" Hangul Syllable Geu is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "geu" as in the word "그림" (geurim, meaning "picture" or "drawing"). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) with the vowel "ㅡ" (eu) and no final consonant, making it a simple and frequently used syllable in the Korean language. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllables in a systematic order based on the traditional alphabet. In everyday Korean text, "그" appears in numerous common words and grammatical particles, such as the determiner "그" (meaning "that") and the pronoun "그것" (geugeot, meaning "that thing").
General Properties
Code Point
U+ADF8
Name
Hangul Syllable Geu
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
그
HTML Hex Encoding
그
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xB7 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0xADF8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000ADF8
C/C++/Java Escape
\uadf8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul